This workshop at Columbia considered the politics of representations of the Naqab Bedouins as these have emerged over the past decade in advocacy, media, policy, and in cultural and artistic productions.

Attorney Hassan Jabareen, founder and director of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, will present the legal dimensions of political participation by Palestinian citizens of Israel in the 2015 Israeli elections.

Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, a Palestinian doctor, writer, and activist who has for 35 years worked in providing health care to Palestinians living in the Galilee. He is co-founder of the Galilee society, a medical health and research NGO, and author of the accalimed memoir, A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel

Jamal Nusseibeh, 2014-2015 Palestine & Law Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies, will address the current legal/political situation in and status of Jerusalem through the lens of the challenges faced by one of its largest surviving Palestinian institutions, Al Quds University.